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Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) library written with pure Node.js (no bindings) - baked by Bluez via DBus
npm install node-ble
In order to allow a connection with the DBus daemon, you have to set up right permissions.
Create the file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/node-ble.conf
with the following content (customize with userid)
<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>
<policy user="%userid%">
<allow own="org.bluez"/>
<allow send_destination="org.bluez"/>
<allow send_interface="org.bluez.GattCharacteristic1"/>
<allow send_interface="org.bluez.GattDescriptor1"/>
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager"/>
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties"/>
</policy>
</busconfig>
To start a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connection you need a Bluetooth adapter.
const {createBluetooth} = require('node-ble')
const {bluetooth, destroy} = createBluetooth()
const adapter = await bluetooth.defaultAdapter()
In order to find a Bluetooth Low Energy device out, you have to start a discovery operation.
if (! await adapter.isDiscovering())
await adapter.startDiscovery()
Use an adapter to get a remote Bluetooth device, then connect to it and bind to the GATT (Generic Attribute Profile) server.
const device = await adapter.waitDevice('00:00:00:00:00:00')
await device.connect()
const gattServer = await device.gatt()
const service1 = await gattServer.getPrimaryService('uuid')
const characteristic1 = await service1.getCharacteristic('uuid')
await characteristic1.writeValue(Buffer.from("Hello world"))
const buffer = await characteristic1.readValue()
console.log(buffer)
const service2 = await gattServer.getPrimaryService('uuid')
const characteristic2 = await service2.getCharacteristic('uuid')
await characteristic2.startNotifications()
characteristic2.on('valuechanged', buffer => {
console.log(buffer)
})
await characteristic2.stopNotifications()
When you have done you can disconnect and destroy the session.
await device.disconnect()
destroy()
This library works on many architectures supported by Linux. It leverages on Bluez driver, a component supported by the following platforms and distributions https://www.bluez.org/about
Node-ble has been tested on the following environment:
async writeValue (value, optionsOrOffset = {})
#20; Upgrades depsBluetooth.activeAdapters()
func #45;writeValueWithoutResponse()
and writeValueWithResponse
methods #47; Improves typescript definition #48Command | Description |
---|---|
rm -r /var/lib/bluetooth/* | Clean Bluetooth cache |
hciconfig -a | Adapter info |
hcitool dev | Adapter info (through Bluez) |
d-feet | DBus debugging tool |
nvram bluetoothHostControllerSwitchBehavior=never | Only on Parallels |
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Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) library written with pure Node.js (no bindings) - baked by Bluez via DBus
The npm package node-ble receives a total of 411 weekly downloads. As such, node-ble popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that node-ble demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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